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Raphael de Mercatellis, also known as Raphael of Burgundy (1437 – 3 August 1508), was a church official, imperial counsellor and bibliophile. He was the illegitimate son of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy and a woman of Venetian origins, the wife of a merchant.
24 de mar. de 2017 · Eventually, the end of the fifteenth century saw affluent nobles and clergymen, such as Raphael de Mercatellis, establishing the first exclusively humanist libraries in Northern Europe. Mercatellis was the patron of Commentaries on Plato (MS Hunter 206) , one of the few Northern humanist manuscripts in Special Collections.
They are so-named for their most notable patron Raphaël de Mercatellis (1437–1508), an illegitimate son of Philip the Good of Burgundy who served as abbot of Saint Bavo in Ghent and became the most important humanistic bibliophile in the Low Countries.
Raphaël de Mercatellis (1437–1508), one of the non-marital children of Duke Philip of Burgundy (1396–1467), became abbot of St. Bavo’s in Ghent in 1478. He patronized artists in colloquial workshops while assembling his library, rather than commissioning paintings from celebrated, and more expensive, master illuminators.
Published as a companion to the exhibition 'De bibliotheek van Raphaël de Marcatellis (1437-1508)', organized at the University Library of Ghent from 17 September to 26 October 1979 in honour of Professor Dr. K. G. van Acker Review: J.J.G. ALEXANDER, Medium Aevum, 50 (1981), pp. 324-325
- Albert Derolez
- 1979
Raphael de Mercatellis was abbot of the abbey from 1478, and used money from the abbey to commission lavish illuminated manuscripts. In 1540, Charles V ordered the destruction of the abbey. A coercion castle, with its cannons directed at Ghent, was built on the location of the abbey. References
12 de dic. de 2012 · One of those men, Raphael de Mercatellis, was a wealthy bibliophile abbot of the church of Saint Bavo in Ghent, which, then as now, also housed Jan and Hubert van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece. The abbot owned at least one other manuscript containing illuminations by van Wulfschkercke and Bruynruwe that shares much in common with our ...
